St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-25
STRAY SUNBEANIS.

Mrs. LANGTRY had an exciting time
at Detroit the other evening. Four the
alter managers with blood in their eyes,
and two bailiffS with attachment writs
in their hands, were chasing the Jersey
Lily from o'clock in the afternoon
until the hour of midnight. The thea
ter managers wanted damages for her
failure to fill her engagements, and the
bailiffS wanted chance to earn some
fees.
But it happened, as it has often hap
pened before, woman'S wit was too
keen for even the law and its processes.
Mrs. LANGTRY didn't think she owed
the managers anything, because she
had notified them long ago that she
would not be able to fill the engage
ments her agent had made, and as the
theater men had never made kick
about it she supposed that they were
satisfied, and that the dates had been
filed with other companies. Feeling
that she was prosecuted woman she
resolved to outwit them. The result
shows that she was quail to the emer-
gency.
When tie sheriff went to the Michi-
gan Central depot in the afternoon to
serve the writ on Mrs. LANGTRY in her
private car he found railroad official
standing sentry who refused the officer
admission. He was informed that Mrs.
LANGTRY was asleep, and under her
contract with the railway company could
not be disturbed until she had her
snooze out. The officer retired and re-
turned at o'clock to find that his bird
had flown. The car had been vacated
and nobody could tell him what had be-
come of the fair occupant.
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That evening the officers fingered
around the entrances to the theater
where she was to play that night in the
expectation of catching her. But by
some means she managed to get into
the theater without being observed.
When they attempted to find their way
to the rear of the stage and serve the
papers ON Mrs. LANGTRY in her dress
ing room they were again repulsed by
the proprietor, who stated that it was a
part of his contract with Mrs. LANGTRY
that no one was to be admitted to the
stage during performance except with
her consent.
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The only resource left was to catch
her as she came out. The minions of
the law placed sentinels at each exit
with instructions to keep close watch.
The womanly wit of the Jersey beauty
did not fail her in this crisis. She
dressed up young lady of her COM
pany in her outfit and sent her out in
advance. AS soon as the sheriff saw
woman slipping out of the side entrance
wearing the original LANGTRY hat and
street suit he supposed he was making
sure of his game by Immediately serv-
ing the writ on her and then bustling
off to the box-office to levy on the
receipts, only to find himself in the
condition of Old Mother HUBBARD's
hungry dog. When he got there the
cupboard was bare. The cash in the
treasury had been paid over to the
actress before the curtain had been
rung up on the performance. And in
the meantime Mrs. LANGTRY had
quietly escaped from her theatrical
prison, and the world was hers once
more.
Probably there is not anywhere to be
found a finer trout preserve than the
one owned by Messrs. DAWSON, RICE
and THOMPSON, of this city. 1t is
buried in the midst of the picturesque
hills and dales about four miles from
Taylor's Falls. The preserve is an at
tractive forest of LOO acres and en-
braces the entire watershed that con-
tributes to the main lake. From the
lake to the head springs it is four miles
in direct line and five miles by the
sinuous course of the stream.
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The stream is fed by liberal success
sion of cOpious springs, tile water in
which is as clear as crystal and quite as
cold as the ice water in your dining
| room cooler.
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This is an old preserve and consists of
ponds and streams, all of which are well
filled with doye-eyed yet gamey speck-
led beauties. The property has been so
we'll cared for that the fish have ae-
cumulated in numbers until the waters
are literally alive with them.
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Ex-senator DAVIS, of West]Virginia,
has quite trout preserve on the top of
the Allegheny mountains on his grand
landed estate known as Deer Park.
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